Cacaopera language
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| Cacaopera | |
|---|---|
| Native to | El Salvador |
| Region | Morazán Department |
| Ethnicity | Cacaopera people |
| Extinct | 20th century[citation needed] |
Misumalpan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ccr |
| Glottolog | caca1247 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| File:Pueblos Indigenas antes de la conquista El Salvador.svg Map of El Salvador's Indigenous Peoples at the time of the Spanish conquest:
1. Pipil people, 2. Lenca, 3. Kakawira o Cacaopera people, 4. Xinca, 5. Maya Ch'orti' people, 6. Maya Poqomam people, 7. Mangue o Chorotega. | |
Cacaopera is an extinct language belonging to the Misumalpan family, formerly spoken in the department of Morazán in El Salvador by the Cacaopera people. It was closely related to Matagalpa, and slightly more distantly to Sumo, but was geographically separated from other Misumalpan languages.
The last semi-speakers of Cacaopera lived in the 1970s.[1] All native speakers had died before this time.
Phonology
[edit | edit source]Consonants
[edit | edit source]| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ŋ̊ | |
| voiced | m | n | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | |
| voiced | b | d | |||
| Fricative | s | x | |||
| Liquid | voiceless | r̥ | ɬ | ||
| voiced | r | l | |||
| Semivowel | w | ɥ | |||
Vowels
[edit | edit source]| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i | iː | ɯ | ɯː |
| Open | a | aː | ||
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Recording of a semi-speaker of Cacaopera from 1973, from the MesoAmerican Languages Collection of Lyle Campbell at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America.
